1980
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Dardanus is a 119-minute studio album of Jean-Philippe Rameau 's opera, performed by a cast led by José van Dam, Michael Devlin, Veronique Dietschy, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Georges Gautier, Roger Soyer and Frederica von Stade with the Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre of the Paris Opera under the direction of Raymond Leppard.
Dardanus is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a French-language libretto by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. Dardanus premiered at the Paris Opéra on 19 November 1739 to mixed success, mainly because of the dramatic weakness of the libretto.
Théâtre National de Paris / Leppard, 1980 - Von Stade, Eda-Pierre, Gautier, Van Dam, Soyer, Dietschy, Devlin.
- 10 min
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- Wiebe Moes
Listen to Rameau: Dardanus by Paris Opera Orchestra & Raymond Leppard on Apple Music. 1981. 40 Songs. Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes.
Raymond John Leppard CBE (11 August 1927 – 22 October 2019) was a British-American conductor, harpsichordist, composer and editor.
ALPHA 964 [80:31 + 64:36] Dardanus (1739) was Rameau’s fifth opera. As each one appeared they caused a stir amongst Paris’s musical cognoscenti. Some regarded the composer’s vivid innovations in music-drama as unsettling the conventions established by Lully in preceding generation.
Rameau: Dardanus by José van Dam, Georges Gautier, Raymond Leppard, Frederica Von Stade. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more...
